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Discipline rate of black students in Del., elsewhere is probed
- 10-18-2010
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By Nichole Dobo/USA Today
The U.S. Department of Education's office of civil rights is investigating whether black male students are punished disproportionately in the Christina School District in Wilmington and Newark, one of five districts nationwide under scrutiny for its discipline record. Federal investigators are in the process of visiting all of Christina's schools and have requested detailed discipline data for at least the last two academic years. Education Secretary Arne Duncan first mentioned districts were being investigated at a conference in late September hosted by the Department of Education's civil rights office and the Department of Justice's civil rights division. Besides Delaware, the school districts under review are in New York, North Carolina, Utah and Minnesota. (more…)
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